US Patent Issued to KAKAO ENTERPRISE on Nov. 11 for "Foreign language pronunciation assessment apparatus and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,484, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KAKAO ENTERPRISE CORP. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Foreign language pronunciation assessment apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Eui Sung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hye Ji Seo (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hong Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology for assessing foreign language pronunciation of a non-native learner is provided. The foreign language pronunciation assessment technology includes training an end-to-end speech recognizer with native speaker data, tuning the trained end-to-end speech recognizer with non-native speaker data...